Zeta 2 Reticuli
Home system of the Greys?
Since the 6th October, 1995 several new planets orbiting other suns have been discovered
and officially announced. However, in what may be a breakthrough for ufology, on the 20
September, 1996, a planet was discovered orbiting the star Zeta 2 Reticuli.
In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were abducted by aliens and taken aboard their spacecraft.
During her abduction, Betty was shown a star map. She
was asked by an alien to point out the Earth, but since Betty had no knowledge of astronomy,
she couldn't reply. After her abduction, and under hypnotic regression Betty Hill drew
the star map as accurately as possible. A few years later, Marjorie Fish built a few
models of star systems using plastic balls and wire .. one of these models matched Betty
Hill's diagram. The star system from which Betty had been told the aliens originated from
was Zeta 2 Reticuli!
In 1988, Bob Lazar came forward with an incredible story - he said
he had worked at Area 51 (S4) in Nevada to reverse engineer alien spacecraft that had been
captured by the US government! During his stay at S4 he was given briefing papers to read
and some of them described the alien's home solar system .. and yes, you've guessed it ..
Zeta 2 Reticuli, and specifically the 4th planet in that solar system!
Below is some interesting information found on some mailing lists :
From the Extra Solar Planets Encylopedia
Star M[.sini] Semi-maj. Period Ecc. Inclin. Radius
Jup. mass:(J) Axis (AU) years(y) (deg) (Earth
Earth mass:(E) days(d) rad.)
(note 1)
zeta2 Ret 0.27(J) 0.14 18.9 (d) 0. - -
11 pc
G1V
V = 5.24
In a rather strange "about face", the above information was removed from the Extra
Solar Planets Encyclopedia site after 4 days .. the official reason was that "the
data may have been misinterpreted and there probably is no planet." Fortunately,
I had saved the original version of the Encyclopedia
with the Zeta 2 Reticuli information still present.
Now this big quarter of a Jupiter mass planet is in an orbit about
Zeta 2 Reticuli which lasts 18.9 days and has a semi-major axis of
0.14 Astronomical Units. For comparison Mercury has a semi-major
axis of 0.39 Astronomical Units (AU) [1.00 Astronomical Units = the
distance of between the earth and the sun, about 93 million miles).
Now assuming that this newly discovered planet is the closest one to
Zeta 2 Ret (it's hard to imagine a closer one) then following Bode's
Law (the law which states each planet is about twice the distance
from it's sun as its inner neighbour) Reticulum 2 should be at
0.28 AU, Reticulum 3 should be at 0.56 AU and INTERESTINGLY
Reticulum 4 would be at 1.12 AU in between the Earth's 1.00 AU and
Mars's 1.52 AU, well within the lifezone of a G class star!
Thanks to Joe LeSesne, E-mail : raver187@m-net.arbornet.org
I just found another possible way that this recent discovery
could confirm part of Lazar and Jarod 2's story. I found the
length of the Zeta 2 Reticulum 4's year. How did I do this you
might ask? Simple, with calculator in hand I used two elementary
laws of Astronomy. Bode's Law and Kepler's 3rd Law.
The numbers I used were from that data on the Extrasolar Planets
Encyclopedia Web Site are these:
Semi-major axis measured in Astronomical Units, and Period measured
in days. The newly discovered planet has a semi-major axis of
0.14 AU and a period of 18.9 days
Some Definitions:
1 Astronomical Unit (AU) = 93 million miles, the distance between
the Earth and Sun.
Semi-major axis is the measurement of the planets orbit in
relation to it's star in Astronomical Units. The Earth's semi-
major axis is 1.00 AU.
Period is the amount of time it takes to complete one orbit, a
planet's period is it's year. The Earth's Period is 365.26 days.
First, Bode's Law:
As I stated before if you apply Bode's law which states:
The semi-major axis of each planet is double that of it's neighbour
nearer to the star.Or simply each planet is about twice as far
from its star as its inner neighbour. i.e. Jupiter is 5.2 AU
from the Sun, Saturn is 9.5 AU. Now if you apply this to the
new discovery of a planet around Zeta 2 Reticuli and you assume
this planet is the closest to its star this making it the closest
planet to Zeta Reticuli 2 (Reticulum 1 we will call it in keeping
with Lazar's naming convention which I should add differs from the
IAU convention which would name it Zeta 2 Reticulum A - so far)
At 0.14 AU it's hard to imagine a closer planet to Zeta 2 Ret.,
for comparison Mercury is at 0.387 AU from the Sun so this
newly found planet is Reticulum 1 in all likelyhood. Using Bodes
law we can extrapolate where the other planets of Zeta 2 Reticuli
should be.
Kepler's 3rd law relates the planet's period or year to it's semi-
major axis of it's orbit. Mathematically this is expressed as
P(squared) = a(cubed). P is the Period measured in earth years and
a is the semi-major axis measued in Astronomical units (AU)
Using both of these we can find out the length of the year on each
hypothetical planet in the Zeta 2 Reticuli system, INCLUDING
Reticulum 4, Bob Lazar's home of the Greys.
Now lets apply Bodes Law and Kepler's 3rd Law:
Planets of the Zeta 2 Reticulum System
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Planet Semi-Major axis Period(days) Period(years)
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Reticulum 1 0.14 (AU) 18.9 (days) 0.052 (years)
Reticulum 2 0.28 54.0 0.1481
Reticulum 3 0.56 152.9 0.4196
Reticulum 4 1.12 432.6 1.12
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So one Reticulum 4 year is equal to roughly 1.12 earth years OR
432 days. And it is in roughly the same position in Zeta 2 Ret's
"life-zone" as the Earth is in the Sun's. Zeta 2 Ret is a G1V
spectral class star, the sun is a G2V. They are both G class main
sequence stars, the difference between the 2 and the 1 indicates
that Zeta 2 Reticuli is a little hotter than the sun. The higher
the middle number the lower the temperature. The V means they are
both main sequence (middle age) stars but given Zeta 2 Reticuli's
higher temperature, and lower metallicity, it is probably older
than the sun by a couple billion years. So basically the Sun is a
little cooler and younger than Zeta 2 Reticuli.
For comparison here is a breakdown of the inner planets of our
solar system.
Planets of the Solar System
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Planet Semi-Major axis Period(days) Period(years)
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Mercury 0.387 (AU) 87.97(days) 0.2409(years)
Venus 0.723 224.7 0.6152
Earth 1.00 365.26 1.0000
Mars 1.524 686.98 1.8809
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So this brings me to my conclusion. We can check part of Lazar and
Jarod 2's story by asking the simple question: "How long is a
year on Reticulum 4?" If the answer is anywhere in the
neighborhood of 410-445 days (I'm allowing a lot for error) then
their stock will have gone up even more. Keep me posted as to what
you find out.
Thanks to Joe LeSesne, E-Mail : raver187@m-net.arbornet.org